Interested in helping the Kansas City area? Great! Whether or not you know how to code, you can help by joining us to work on civic hacking to create a better Kansas City and surrounding cities. Bring projects, ideas, designs, laptops, data, and friends.

Civic Heroes of all types welcome! This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

Bring a laptop: If you intend on getting some hands-on hacking done (it's ok if you can't but it definitely helps to have one).

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about, please let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Code for KC is a program of KC Digital Drive, a local non-profit whose mission is to make Kansas City a digital leader by developing civic capacity to adapt to technology change. We are the local affiliate in Code for America's Brigade network.

Code for KC has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone. Code For KC presenters and participants are held to this anti-harassment policy (http://codeforkc.org/hackkc-code-of-conduct).

This class is for young people age 12 to 17 years old. In this intro to welding class, the instructor will cover basic welding techniques. A variety of useful welding methods will be demonstrated and then repeated by the students. Open to beginners as well as those who have prior experience. **Please bring a long sleeved, preferably denim shirt with you to protect your arms.** The class will introduce you to flux-core wire feed, MIG and ARC welding.

For ages: 12-17 years old ONLY

All materials included

**IMPORTANT**: Parents must sign a safety waiver for their child at the beginning of the class. Parents are welcome to hangout at HammerSpace while their child takes the class, or just drop off and pick up.

Redux-Observable is an amazingly powerful middleware for Redux using RxJS. It's more-versatile than simple reducers and simplifies managing complex async state patterns. While Redux is usually paired with React, Redux-Observable goes beyond that by being a message bus for any library such as AngularJS.

Learn some sewing machine basics as you create your very own "ugly doll" (AKA cuties with character). In this class we will be using sewing machines and hand embroidery to stitch together various shapes, and add buttons and details. All materials are included, but you are welcome to bring some of your own fabrics, buttons, etc to include in your creation. Outside food and drink are welcome. This will be a fun, casual, social event. Suggested age range: 9 to 109 years old. :-)

**FYI: The class price is per Ugly Doll, not per person, so adults are welcome to attend with their children at no additional cost if you are both making one ugly doll together.

Join us for and open-ended Sunday of building fun and interesting DIY Electronics Kits.

We have scoured the dark corners of the internet to bring you this selection of kits curated for makes of all ages and skill levels!

Are you a Beginner who is excited to learn the basics? We've got a basic kits that are easy to build and a blast to use! Do you know what your doing but are eager for practice? Come build one of our larger multi-part kits! Are you a soldering god who's looking for a challenge?! Then try your hand at building one of our Surface Mount Soldering Kits!

We meet in the Hammerspace Classroom starting at 1:00pm. You pick the kit you'd like to build from our selection, and our instructors will provide all the instruction, guidance, and assembly hints you need!

---Bring food and drink if you'd like, or even order takeout while you build.---

Young assistants are welcomed and encouraged!

No RSVP is required for MEMBERS of Hammerspace. $5 RSVP for non members, Kit prices vary from $15 to $45 depending on complexity. Cash and Cards accepted during the class.

The Kansas City Search Engine Marketing Association is dedicated to educating the local business community about the benefits of Search Engine Marketing and helping aspiring and existing SEMs advance their careers.

Accessibility. Why should I care? This entertaining and highly interactive session aims to spark your thinking about the transformative power of technology, and encourage designers engineers and developers to build the next wave of inclusive technology. You'll explore some interesting examples using AI for Accessibility, such as real-time speech-to-text transcription, visual recognition services and predictive text functionality. You'll also see the Xbox Adaptive Controller, along with some assistive devices demonstrated on an Xbox. Finally, you'll get some great tips and practical advice on how to incorporate Inclusive Design in your own applications.

John Alexander co-founded the largest technical blogging community in the world, Geekswithblogs.Net before selling it several years ago and built music chart applications for Billboard Magazine used by "American Top 40". He's sat in Kirk's Chair on the bridge, has recorded cartoon pilots as part of a voice ensemble cast, is the co-creator of the "Geek" t-shirt (found at most Microsoft conferences), and was Facebook friends with Patrick Swayze.

John is a developer advocate with a passion for designing and building accessible experiences using machine learning coupled with voice, touch, and virtual/mixed reality. His secret identity is a mild-mannered Senior Content Developer on the Microsoft APEX team (docs.microsoft.com) focused on ML.NET, .NET Core, and Docker. John is a former Microsoft Regional Director and MVP and is a client-centric, UX-focused software architecture and development thought leader, consultant, trainer, published author and speaker.

Ryan Schooley is going to talk on Libraries, especially how the way you set them up can impact site performance. We'll have plenty of time for Q&A, updates on Flyover Camp, and whatever anyone might want to talk about.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 6:00:00 PM Johnson County Community College 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, KS

This meetup marks the start of our 5-part series on creating a Product Configurator Unreal project from start to finish. For Part 1, we'll walk through the asset creation process and importing into UE4.

Meetup Information:Come meet other local Unreal Engine/Game Developers, discuss the latest tech and ideas in game development, showcase your own game dev work, engage in round-table discussions, and network with other professionals.

The KC Unreal Devs User Group will be meeting at the Johnson County Community College CoLab. The CoLab is located on the ground floor of the Office and Classroom Building.

The easiest parking location is to the North West of the Office and Classroom Building (OCB). Here's a .PDF map of the CoLab and parking locations: https://goo.gl/ucwUh8

Also, be sure to follow the KC Unreal Game Devs User Group on Twitter (@KCUnrealDevs) and join our Discord channel ( https://discord.gg/Dnk9YvZ ) for on-going discussions, tips-and-tricks, and other industry news happening in the world of Game Dev.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 5:30:00 PM Kansas City Public Library: North East Branch 6000 Wilson Ave, Kansas City, MO

RESCHEDULE OF 2/19 Meetup @ new Location

Abstract:

The economics of the Cloud continues to dictate the need for radical changes to language runtimes. In this session learn about how OpenJDK with the Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM is leading the way in creating an enterprise strength, industry leading Java runtime that provides the operational characteristics most needed for Java applications running in the Cloud: efficient memory use, fast start-up, and releasing resources when idle. Whether deploying micro-services or more traditional Java applications the combination of OpenJDK with Eclipse OpenJ9 can help you reduce operational costs across the board.

Bio:

Billy is a developer advocate with IBM and has over a decade of experience. Billy is passionate about finding ways to reduce mental capacity waste from tedious work; such as project initiation, deployment, testing and validation, and so on through automation and good management practices. Outside of work Billy enjoy traveling, playing kickball, and having his heart broken by cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs.

For nearly a decade, Atlassian customers have come together to network, share ideas, solve problems, and find new ways to use Atlassian products. Today, more than 15,000 people take part in Atlassian user groups in more than 30 countries.

If you've ever wanted to get into 3D printing, but don't quite know how to get started, then this is the class for you! 3D Printing & Design class, going on every other Saturday at Hammerspace. Learn how to design objects to be printed, as well as how to operate a 3D printer. No prior knowledge required.

Be sure to bring your laptop so you can get set up to get started on designing your first 3D creation.

FYI: There are two ONI 3D printer available to members of HammerSpace Workshop.

WHEN

Fri, March 1, 20197:30 AM – 9:00 AM CDT

WHERE

Grand Street Cafe4740 Grand AvenueKansas City, MO 64112

SMCKC March Breakfast: Keys to Success in Highly Regulated Industries

March 1, 2019 | 7:30 a.m.

Not all industries are alike! Social media marketers in regulated environments like healthcare, higher education and finance typically have high compliance standards and added challenges running social campaigns.

Andrew Grojean, Senior Manager of Innovation at Intouch Solutions, will share best practices from his years in healthcare marketing, tactics for marketers to help innovate in their space, and resources to help create compliant marketing campaigns. Andrew was also awarded #AMPSKC 2019 Trailblazer of the Year!

Whether you’re a marketer in a highly regulated industry or not, you’ll take away the tools needed to maintain control of your content on constantly evolving social platforms.

This is a 3D Printer Build/Repair Clinic for those who need assistance building or repairing their 3D printer. Tom Newell, local inventor and distributor of ONI 3D printers will be walking you through the build or repair of your ONI 3D printer or any other brand of 3D printer you bring in with you. Spare parts for ONI printers will be on hand for sale during this clinic.

Interested in helping the Kansas City area? Great! Whether or not you know how to code, you can help by joining us to work on civic hacking to create a better Kansas City and surrounding cities. Bring projects, ideas, designs, laptops, data, and friends.

Civic Heroes of all types welcome! This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

Bring a laptop: If you intend on getting some hands-on hacking done (it's ok if you can't but it definitely helps to have one).

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about, please let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Code for KC is a program of KC Digital Drive, a local non-profit whose mission is to make Kansas City a digital leader by developing civic capacity to adapt to technology change. We are the local affiliate in Code for America's Brigade network.

Code for KC has a Code of Conduct! Please always be respectful and help us keep our events welcoming, positive, productive environments for everyone. Code For KC presenters and participants are held to this anti-harassment policy (http://codeforkc.org/hackkc-code-of-conduct).

Members of HammerSpace and their families: Join us for an old-school LAN party now that we have shiny new Google Fiber at the workshop. Bring your laptop and your Steam account, and enjoy an exciting evening of multiplayer gaming with fellow HammerSpace makers. Outside food and drinks welcome and encouraged (adult or otherwise).

**THIS IS A MEMBERS ONLY EVENT. BE READY TO SHOW YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD AT THE DOOR**

If you have any multiplayer games to suggest to other attendees of the party, please list them in the comments. We suggest Team Fortress 2, Quake 2, and Star Craft. And our 10 year old son suggests Fortnite and Minecraft of course.

Welcome to AlexaKC!Bob Stolzberg gave a nice overview at our last meetup, and we're excited to continue with this adventure!

For this meetup, we'll focus on how Alexa interprets and processes your requests. We'll also have a live "Getting Started" section in which you can code alongside us to get your first skill up. We've planned plenty of time for this so you don't have to feel rushed.

Patch
Smarter, Not Harder. In this talk, we will discuss why most organizations
are wasting time and resources by patching the wrong systems on their networks
and how taking a data-drive approach based off threat intel helps you decide
what needs to be prioritized.

Speaker
Bio:

Jerry
Gamblin is the principal security engineer for Kenna Security. He is an
industry recognized visionary with high-caliber talent in directing all aspects
of highly technical security initiatives and transformative projects. He is an
internationally known speaker, writer, security researcher, and blogger.

Learn some sewing machine basics as you create your very own "ugly doll" (AKA cuties with character). In this class we will be using sewing machines and hand embroidery to stitch together various shapes, and add buttons and details. All materials are included, but you are welcome to bring some of your own fabrics, buttons, etc to include in your creation. Outside food and drink are welcome. This will be a fun, casual, social event. Suggested age range: 9 to 109 years old. :-)

**FYI: The class price is per Ugly Doll, not per person, so adults are welcome to attend with their children at no additional cost if you are both making one ugly doll together.

Every Thursday, the members of Hammerspace gather to socialize, network, and meet new members of the space. We welcome the community at large to come down during this time to explore the workshop, check out all of the tools, fabrication equipment and work space made available to HammerSpace members, and ask questions of our community of Hammerspace users.

There is plenty of off-street parking, a kids playroom available for tiny makers, and the evening is always the origin point of new and amazing creative ideas.

Tours are led every 30 minutes for those curious about the tools and capabilities of the facility and staff. This is a free event, open to the public.

Abstract:You know what nobody has ever said to me? "I wish you'd covered even more in your 45 minute 'Cloud Native Java' talk!" And I listened!

In this talk, we'll look at Spring Cloud.next to support modern microservices development, focusing on the things that really matter from Spring Boot 2.1 and Spring Cloud Greenwich:

Functions-as-a-service with Spring Cloud Function. We've got FUNCTIONS (wrapped in apps, in containers, running on servers, in datacenters) functional reactive REST endpoints (totally different meaning for "function" here, though) reactive programming with Spring Framework 5. Leverage flow control at every layer and make the most efficient use of every CPU when doing input/output. You're going to need every bit of efficiency that you can get after you've installed the patches for Spectre and Meltdown!

Kotlin. Yes, KOTLIN: you wanted Java and I'm giving it to you... in libraries that I'll use from Kotlin.

Messaging with Apache Kafka. Nothing funny here. It's just awesome.

Live on the edge with the new, reactive, rate-limiting, proxying, websocket-aware Spring Cloud Gateway

When you walk in the door, let them know you are with KC Roundtable and they should bring you to the table!

We are usually in the room to the back left. If that one is for some reason filled we end up in the room to the right immediately when you walk in at the a large set of tables in the middle. See you there! Click here for eventRead more...

If you've ever wanted to get into 3D printing, but don't quite know how to get started, then this is the class for you! 3D Printing & Design class, going on every other Saturday at Hammerspace. Learn how to design objects to be printed, as well as how to operate a 3D printer. No prior knowledge required.

Be sure to bring your laptop so you can get set up to get started on designing your first 3D creation.

FYI: There are two ONI 3D printer available to members of HammerSpace Workshop.

This is a 3D Printer Build/Repair Clinic for those who need assistance building or repairing their 3D printer. Tom Newell, local inventor and distributor of ONI 3D printers will be walking you through the build or repair of your ONI 3D printer or any other brand of 3D printer you bring in with you. Spare parts for ONI printers will be on hand for sale during this clinic.

Are you looking for a new opportunity in tech? Learn about optimizing your resume and LinkedIn profile at our February TechTalk on Wednesday, February 20 at 6 PM! Learn tips and tricks from our panel of local recruiters. They'll share what they have learned and what they look for in candidates, and you can land your next tech job in the KC area!

Join us for our February meeting to connect with your fellow quality-minded individuals and get the scoop on some big changes happening with the group!

In this month's Meetup Daniel Jiregna and Nick Gover from NIPR will facilitate demos for some leading testing reporting frameworks.

With Extent Reports; Daniel will demonstrate how you can create beautiful, interactive and detailed reports for your tests. Add events, screenshots, tags, devices, authors or any other relevant information you decide is important to create an informative and a stunning report.

Using Allure Nick will show you a flexible lightweight multi-language test report tool that not only shows a very concise representation of what have been tested in a clean and modern web report but allows everyone participating in the development process to extract useful information from everyday execution of tests.

Members of HammerSpace and their families: Join us for an old-school LAN party now that we have shiny new Google Fiber at the workshop. Bring your laptop and your Steam account, and enjoy an exciting evening of multiplayer gaming with fellow HammerSpace makers. Outside food and drinks welcome and encouraged (adult or otherwise).

**THIS IS A MEMBERS ONLY EVENT. BE READY TO SHOW YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD AT THE DOOR**

If you have any multiplayer games to suggest to other attendees of the party, please list them in the comments. We suggest Team Fortress 2, Quake 2, and Star Craft. And our 10 year old son suggests Fortnite and Minecraft of course.

Welcome to AlexaKC!Bob Stolzberg gave a nice overview at our last meetup, and we're excited to continue with this adventure!

For this meetup, we'll focus on how Alexa interprets and processes your requests. We'll also have a live "Getting Started" section in which you can code alongside us to get your first skill up. We've planned plenty of time for this so you don't have to feel rushed.

Two Presentations:Developing an entertainment web site by Jeremy Shields using TemplateRe-branding / hiring Graphic Artist that can capture your brand - John K

We will be on the first floor in the main conference room. Please enter from the north side or east side of the building. Can always ask Tim at the front desk. Please RSVP.. Click here for eventRead more...

Front-end development can be complicated. There are enough libraries and enough churn to make anyone feel lost in the shuffle. Common concerns for any modern web application include features like authentication, user content, APIs, and analytics. In this session, you will get a break-down and demo of the key features of AWS Amplify, an open-source toolchain from Amazon. Amplify abstracts away the common functionality that so many applications share and allows developers to focus on business logic – not plumbing! This session will walk through a simple application high-lighting the features and tools the library provides. This should leave you with the knowledge of "how and why" you would integrate this with your own projects. The session will use React to demonstrate the features of the library, but general front-end development experience is all that is required.

The economics of the Cloud continues to dictate the need for radical changes to language runtimes. In this session learn about how OpenJDK with the Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM is leading the way in creating an enterprise strength, industry leading Java runtime that provides the operational characteristics most needed for Java applications running in the Cloud: efficient memory use, fast start-up, and releasing resources when idle. Whether deploying micro-services or more traditional Java applications the combination of OpenJDK with Eclipse OpenJ9 can help you reduce operational costs across the board.

Bio:

Billy is a developer advocate with IBM and has over a decade of experience. Billy is passionate about finding ways to reduce mental capacity waste from tedious work; such as project initiation, deployment, testing and validation, and so on through automation and good management practices. Outside of work Billy enjoy traveling, playing kickball, and having his heart broken by cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Meetup will be in the VAULT room in the KC Public Library - Central branch. It's available by taking the elevators down to the "V" floor.

Parking will be in the Garage to the immediate West of the library, or on the street. The library provides 1 hour of parking validation; we are currently looking into solutions for validation beyond that time.